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enEric Davis: Alexander Hamilton should remain on the $10 billhttp://addisonindependent.com/201506eric-davis-alexander-hamilton-should-remain-10-bill
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced last week that when the $10 bill is redesigned in the next few years, Alexander Hamilton&rsquo;s portrait will be taken off the front of the bill, to be replaced by an historically significant woman, yet to be determined. While I am all in favor of putting a woman on the U.S. currency, I do not believe Hamilton is the person whose portrait should be replaced.</p>
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<p><a href="http://addisonindependent.com/201506eric-davis-alexander-hamilton-should-remain-10-bill" target="_blank">read more</a></p>OpinionEric DavisThu, 25 Jun 2015 12:41:12 +0000Evan Johnson31102 at http://addisonindependent.comEric Davis: Middlebury House race intriguinghttp://addisonindependent.com/201407eric-davis-middlebury-house-race-intriguing
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Middlebury&rsquo;s voters will see a competitive election for the town&rsquo;s two Vermont House seats, a consequence of Rep. Paul Ralston&rsquo;s not running for another term.</span></p>
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Three candidates have filed for the Aug. 26 Democratic primary. Rep. Betty Nuovo, who has served in the House from 1981 through 1990, and again from 1997 to the present, will be seeking her 15th term in Montpelier.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">There will not be a U.S. Senate race in Vermont in 2014. However, the results of Senate campaigns in other states could significantly affect politics in Vermont.</span></p>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Health exchange website holds back reforms</span></p>
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Last Sunday, in order to learn more about Vermont Health Connect, I explored the VHC website to get information on insurance options for a hypothetical family of two adults and two children with Vermont&rsquo;s median household income of $53,000.</p>
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Earlier this week, <em>The Politico</em>, a publication with a wide readership among Washington insiders, ran an article entitled &ldquo;What Is Howard Dean Thinking?&rdquo; The article noted that Dean recently made a speech in Iowa, the first caucus state, and will be speaking soon in New Hampshire, the first primary state.</p>
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The three members of Vermont&rsquo;s congressional delegation must decide whether to support President Obama&rsquo;s request that Congress authorize the use of military force against Syria in response to the Assad government&rsquo;s chemical weapons attack on communities near Damascus. As of Sept. 3, none of the members of the delegation had made a firm statement about how he will vote.</p>
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The November 2014 General Election in Vermont could turn out to be the election with the lowest turnout in several decades.</p>
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The Vermont Secretary of State&rsquo;s Web site provides data on registered voters and turnout for all elections since 1974. The average turnout in Vermont for the 10 presidential elections from 1976 through 2012 was 70 percent of the registered voters. Vermont has consistently had one of the highest turnout rates in the nation in presidential elections. In part, this is because of the strongly civic-minded culture of the state.</p>
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The <em>Burlington Free Press </em>announced last week that it was laying off 13 employees, including five reporters, editors and photographers in the newsroom. Over the past decade, the <em>Free Press</em>&rsquo; weekday circulation has dropped by nearly half, from 50,000 to 26,000. Since the <em>Free Press</em> switched to a tabloid format and raised its subscription rates in June 2012, it has lost more than 10 percent of its weekday sales.</p>
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<p><a href="http://addisonindependent.com/201307politically-thinking-energy-oversight-should-be-independent" target="_blank">read more</a></p>OpinionEric DavisOp/edPolitically ThinkingThu, 25 Jul 2013 15:20:24 +0000xian18085 at http://addisonindependent.comPolitically thinking: It’s time to start talking about single-­payer health carehttp://addisonindependent.com/201307politically-thinking-it%E2%80%99s-time-start-talking-about-single-%C2%ADpayer-health-care
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Peter Shumlin began talking about single-payer health care early in 2010, when he became a candidate for governor. Shumlin has not said much about single-payer recently. Some single-payer advocates wonder whether his administration is still committed to applying for a federal waiver to permit Vermont to establish a single-payer system in 2017, the earliest allowable date under the federal Affordable Care Act.</p>
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Recent Vermont history shows that governors lose support the longer they stay in office. Jim Douglas&rsquo; vote share declined from his first re-election in 2004 through his last re-election in 2008, and Howard Dean faced challenging campaigns in his last two re-elections, in 1998 and 2000. The same trend may be starting for Peter Shumlin.</p>
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<p> Letters to the editor, columns, and editorials in recent issues of the <em>Independent</em> have criticized Vermont Gas Systems for trying to obtain approval of the Addison Natural Gas project without allowing sufficient time for public consultation and revising the proposal in response to public concerns. One reason for this criticism may be that although Vermont Gas Systems has the word &ldquo;Vermont&rdquo; in its name, the gas company is really a subsidiary of a large Canadian energy complex that is owned by an interlocking network of pension funds and gas producers all across Canada.</p>
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<p> Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., recently announced that he would not run for re-election in 2014. Johnson&rsquo;s announcement could impact the career of Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy over the next two years.</p>
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One of Gov. Shumlin&rsquo;s talking points in his speeches around the state is that &ldquo;Vermont&rsquo;s economy is on the mend.&rdquo; The governor claims that Vermont has been doing better than most states in recovering from the recession, and that Vermont was the only state in the nation to see actual growth in personal income from 2010 to 2011. While this claim is borne out by the economic data, what the governor does not say is that the income growth in 2011 was concentrated in a small proportion of Vermont households.</p>
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Last week the Gallup Poll released a study claiming that Vermont was the &ldquo;least religious&rdquo; state in the nation. Gallup ranked all the states on a religion index, based on the answers to two yes-or-no questions included with the firm&rsquo;s regular presidential election tracking polls in 2012. The first question was &ldquo;Is religion an important part of your daily life?&rdquo; The second question was &ldquo;Do you attend religious services every week or almost every week?&rdquo;</p>
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